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Monday June 28, 2004
09:32 PM

Learn Linux

[ #19563 ]

A person who knows nearly nothing about Linux sent me a tar file... see what I got with that file and keep in mind the following notes:

swp files - if you're using vim, for instance, and have swap files in the directory, you might want to close vim before taring the directory...

a :w file - always save... but please do it only once!!! writing :w :w doesn't make it better!! :-) (ok, this could have happened to anyone, but be warned :-) )

a ~ file - ... WFT?


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  • Is that "~file" or "file~"? the default backupext for vim is "~".
    • I know that, but the weird thing is that the filename is just a plain tilde... could it be that vim was opened without any arguments? but then again, that would result in a .swp file, right? Just ~ ... nothing more...
      • Actually this happens to me quite a bit. Remember that ~ is the shortcut to your home directory so :w ~/blah.foo

        will write to blah.foo in your home directory.

        Now if you type as fast as I do you pinky tends to hover over the enter key and not over the ;

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